Epidemics Quotes - Page 9

• Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good political slogan for the epidemic to be spread once again, with a burst of automatic weapons or a mushroom cloud.

  Romain Gary

  Dark, Clouds, Mushrooms

  Introduction to "The Plague" by Albert Camus, 1962 edition,

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• NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.

  John Brunner

  Military, Race, Land

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.73, Macmillan

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• How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Military, Doctors, Ebola

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Drug warriors' staunch opposition to needle exchanges to prevent the spread of HIV in addicts delayed the programs' widespread introduction in most states for years. A federal ban on funding for these programs wasn't lifted until 2009. Contrast this with what happened in the U.K. At the peak of the AIDS epidemic in the mid-1990s, the HIV infection rate in IV drug users in the U.K. was about 1%. In New York City, the American epicenter, that figure was 50%. The British had introduced widespread needle exchange in 1986. That country had no heterosexual AIDS epidemic.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Country, New York, Warrior

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• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Fire, Glasses

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.

  Bill Gates

  Vaccines, Would Be, Break

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• There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?

  Eve Ensler

  Men, Connections, Three

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• But in the beginning, when you're looking at this and you're thinking about it, the CDC gets brought up to this place to deal with this virus and it's something that they've never seen. That, in itself, is quite frightening in a story because real-life epidemics are something that happen, all the time. I think there were just a couple of reported cases this last week in Vancouver of some people passing away with H1N1.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Couple, Real, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

  Pearl S. Buck

  War, Intelligent, Race

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

  Kay Arthur

  Running, Self, Land

  Kay Arthur (2004). “God, How Can I Live?”, p.111, Harvest House Publishers

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• You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold and we call that an epidemic threshold.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Country, Levels, Disease

  "H5N1 - Killer Flu". "Wide Angle" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2005.

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• When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.

  Morgan Fairchild

  Aids Epidemic, People, Nerd

  "Live From" with Kyra Phillips, www.cnn.com. January 27, 2005.

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• [In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.

  Pitirim Sorokin

  Taken, Earthquakes, Cities

  Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.24, Templeton Foundation Press

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• Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Men, Mind

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• Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these huge viruses that have wiped out huge populations. So, we're dealing with something that the CDC hasn't seen before, but it comes from a virus. That's something that's based in reality, and then you put the science fiction on that and it's a really interesting combination.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Real, Interesting, Scare

  Source: collider.com

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• China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

  Bill Gates

  Player, Aids Epidemic, Growth

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• I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

  Kelly Reichardt

  New York, Moving, Sadness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Aids Epidemic, Generosity

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Larry [Kramer] had already experienced so much loss by then from the AIDS epidemic. But I don't think it changed anything between us.

  Kevin Sessums

  Loss, Thinking, Aids Epidemic

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• [Crack epidemic] definitely has impacted folks in my family, most definitely. I think that's true for most, if not all people, regardless of color, that grew up in and around areas that were closer to the nucleus of the crack epidemic.If you look at Baltimore or D.C., Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, like, Los Angeles.

  Mahershala Ali

  Thinking, Color, Oakland

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

  Hillary Clinton

  Gun, America, Safe

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not enough," or "something's wrong with me." Most of us have some level of it because our culture has all these standards (handed down through our families) of what it means to be okay.

  Tara Brach

  Mean, Culture, Levels

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

  Bill Gates

  Would Be, Natural

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.

  Paul Ryan

  America, Drug, Problem

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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